VIRGINIA WOOLF AND THE LITERATURE OF THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE by Alice Fox ( 9780198129882 )

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VIRGINIA WOOLF AND THE LITERATURE OF THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE

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0198129882

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9780198129882

Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

8 February, 1990

Pages:

200

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A study of the influence of 16th and 17th century literature on the work of Virginia Woolf. Using letters, diaries, reading-notes, drafts of essays and novels, each Woolf novel is shown to have some integral elements of Renaissance literature in its language, characterization and structure.

Synopsis:

This book examines the profound effect, on a major critic and novelist of the twentieth century, of the period of English literature's greatest glory, the Renaissance. Beginning in the sixteenth century with the poems and plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and with prose writings such as Hakluyt's Voyages, and continuing through the great lyric poets of the seventeenth century, the Renaissance influenced every aspect of Virginia Woolf's work. All her available writing - letters, diaries, reading-notes, drafts of essays, and novels, and feminist polemic - are explored in this illuminating study of Virginia Woolf's varied reactions to the period and its impact on her fiction and criticism. Each of the novels, in particular, is shown to integrate some element of Renaissance literature in its language, characterization, and often structure, enriching the fiction; thus this study deepens our understanding of Woolf's creative process, and our enjoyment of the works.

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Clarendon Press

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